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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Is THIS the Best the Porn Industry Could do for Wonder Woman XXX?

The folks at Vivid Entertainment have grand plans to produce an entire stable of porn videos based on superheroes.  This would be the one instance where the comic book community would actually be more excited to see a Wonder Woman movie than a Batman or Superman movie.  Some of us have been dreaming about Wonder Woman having sex since we were little.

It now seems that the Wonder Woman XXX: A Porn Parody production is underway, as porn actress Tori Black posted this photo of herself in the role.  Wow are we dissapointed.  Why you ask?

1. Wonder Woman has boobs, pretty big ones in fact.  Yet they apparently found the only porn actress in the world who doesn't have boobs to play the role of Princess Diana.

2. She's a Princess of the Amazons, not the Princess of the Trailer Park.  Clean that porch up for Hera's sake, and buy yourself some real patio furniture.

3. That may possibly be the least sexy Wonder Woman costume ever made. Who has ever seen a Wonder Woman costume that doesn't expose some cleavage. 

I know its just a porn movie, but if you're going to do Wonder Woman, you should do her right.  And hard. 

Jim Lee Designs New Costume for Wonder Woman

Today is a big day for Wonder Woman. She will don a new — and less revealing — costume designed by Jim Lee and enjoy the publication of Issue No. 600 of her monthly series.


The new costume also comes with a new backstory devised by J. Michael Straczynski, the new writer of the series.

In the reimagining of her story, Wonder Woman, instead of growing up on Paradise Island with her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and her Amazon sisters, is smuggled out as a baby when unknown forces destroy her home and slaughter its inhabitants.

Straczynski said that he wanted to address “the wardrobe issue” as soon as he took the job.

“She’s been locked into pretty much the exact same outfit since her debut in 1941,” Mr. Straczynski said. “If you’re going to make a statement about bringing Wonder Woman into the 21st century, you need to be bold and you need to make it visual. I wanted to toughen her up, and give her a modern sensibility.”

He added, “What woman only wears only one outfit for 60-plus years?”

The new costume was designed by the artist Jim Lee, who in February was named co-publisher of DC, alongside Dan DiDio. Given the assignment, “my first reaction was, ‘Oh my gosh,’ ” Mr. Lee said in an interview. But he welcomed the challenge: “When these characters become so branded that you can’t change things, they become ossified.”

Monday, June 21, 2010

Kindle and Nook Engaged in War Today as Prices Plummet


A price war is heating up in the electronic reader market, as Amazon cut the price of its Kindle e-reader below $200 Monday just after Barnes & Noble did the same with its competing Nook device.

On Monday afternoon, online retailer Amazon.com Inc. slashed the price of the Kindle by $70 to $189, just a few hours after bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. reduced the price of the Nook by $60 to $199 and said it would also start selling a new Nook with Wi-Fi access for $149.

And the cuts mean the price gap between these products and Apple Inc.'s touchscreen iPad, which starts at $499, is getting ever wider. The popularity of the iPad, along with a number of other tablet computers soon to be available that offer many functions, have pressured e-reader makers to lower prices.

If you've been patiently waiting this inevitable price drop, it seems like today is your day to finally pick up your Kindle or Nook.  Gfest will still be waiting for our iPad.